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Looking for books set in the Mississippi Delta or that general area of the US
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I may be biased....
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
...but I hope you don't think I'm being too, um, self-promotional.
We published a book this past spring that fits the bill (if you're including southern Louisiana). (And it's very good too!)
Unmasked by Jody Gerbig…
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
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Even if a story is extremely close to something that really happened, it is still a fictionalized account (just think of all of those 'ripped from the headlines' shows on TV). Often, modern novels have a disclaimer on th…
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
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We're putting together an anthology about readers and reading
...anything to do with book culture, basically. So we're seeking submissions from all you avid book-lovers out there. Anecdotes, essays, articles, etc. about…
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
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We're giving away 3 copies of each of the following books -- the only condition is that you read the book within 6 weeks of recieving it & do a journal entry/review of the book. We encourage you to release, ring, or RABC…
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
Some questions to think about: How distinctive a title is it? Does it come from a well-known phrase or quotation? Are the two books similar in genre or subject matter? How popular or well-known is the other book?
The …
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We're putting together an anthology about readers and reading
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Bumping to the top in case anyone else might be interested in submitting a story
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
And to mention that not only do we intend to pay contributors, but I assure you there are no hidden costs or requirements to buy the finished book or anything like that.
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
> But what would BookCrossing have to do
> with an Eating Disorder?
I was suggesting you could write both stories. Send the eating disorder one to Seventeen & send the BookCrossing one to us (I Publish Press). I onl…
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
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I think the people at Seventeen would probably find an eating disorder story very pertinent for their market audience even if it's a bit on the dark side. And if that's what you like to write about, it will probably come…
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
Thanks! Good luck. :)
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We're putting together an anthology about readers and reading
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Re: Is there a particular deadline?
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
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No. We haven't set a deadline for submission to the two "open" anthologies.
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We're putting together an anthology about readers and reading
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Re: Do you charge authors fees, as you do the entrants to your contests?
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
No. We don't have any fees for anthology submissions (or regular manuscript submissions for that matter).
Chit-Chat
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We're putting together an anthology about readers and reading
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Re: is there some kind of guideline for length?
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
No. The acquisitions editor decided not to put a minimum or a limit. If we get something very good but too long for the purposes of this anthology, we may consider publishing in another format.
Edited to add: There is…
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
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If you're not planning to show the relatives the unexpurgated version of the story, why would you need a pen name? Presumably they wouldn't be reading anything that would print a story with swearing etc. so they'd never …
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We're putting together an anthology about readers and reading
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Re: What are you paying for contributions?
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
Contributors will be paid if we publish their submission. The amount will be determined when a clear projection of the sales potential can be made, shortly before publication.
I also forgot to mention that 10% of t…
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
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...anything to do with book culture, basically. So we're seeking submissions from all you avid book-lovers out there. Anecdotes, essays, articles, etc. about your experience with books, reading etc.
I realize I'm bei…
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
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if the books don't sell then the author and publisher don't get any money from the book. That's why donating isn't really an option. Theoretically people who wanted a book would just have to wait until the bookstore had …
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
If the PM has gone astray, just let me know.
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
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We're giving away 5 copies of each of our first two titles in digital format (as a downloadable pdf file). We just ask that you make a regular journal entry / request that you send us a review. You're free to copy the b…
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Libarian endorsing acitivity resulting in writers and pubs not getting paid
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Thanks for your responses!
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
I'm heartened to find that the readers here on BookCrossing feel the way we do. We don't want to pack up and go elsewhere. Also, we don't want to make it impossible for the people who have legitimately purchased an e-boo…
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Libarian endorsing acitivity resulting in writers and pubs not getting paid
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Yes, there is a debate
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
As a publisher that aims to specialize in e-books and downloadable audiobooks, I can say this issue is very important to us. On the one hand, we don't believe in heavily restrictive digital rights management (DRM) - the …
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
Well, technically I introduced myself just about two years ago when we first went live with our website. Well, this week our very first book was printed! :D
We're giving away 5 copies of our first book in digital form…
ipublishpress
15 yrs ago
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One set for myself and one set for someone else. I can't figure out how to do that on the store page though. Do I just make a $10 donation? Will I then get an option to give one set of wings away?
ipublishpress
17 yrs ago
Prompted by polls in the New York Times and The Guardian which asked the literati what was the best American (NYT)/British-Commonwealth (Guardian) novel of the past 25 years, we thought it would be fun to do our own poll…
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The best novel of the last twenty-five years:
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Reading the Guardian poll & the NYT one too,
ipublishpress
17 yrs ago
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I was thinking it would be kind of interesting to see what a top 10 of those "guilty pleasure"/pulp fiction/mass market type fiction would look like. So we've set up a survey of our own over on our website. Come on over …